Half an hour later, the team reached the end of the Calimosen Gorge, where a steep hill stretched in front of them. It is about 200 meters high, mainly made of limestone, with an inclination of nearly 80 degrees, and the cliff walls are covered with slippery dark green moss, which is the trace left by the drying of the water curtain.

"The core of the earth is up there. ”

Marquis Farul stopped his sword mantis, pointed to the left and said, "We can go up the slope over there." ”

Victor followed the Marquis of Farul's finger and saw that there was a gentle slope on the north side of the canyon, and the rammed roadbed was paved with bluestone slabs, and the road surface was open enough for five heavy carriages to pass side by side. He estimated that it would take seven or eight minutes for the sword mantis to detour from the slope to the top of the cliff at the earliest.

That was enough time for him to investigate the details of the Earthcore alone.

Victor looked up at the cliff in front of him, quickly calculated a way to climb, then jumped off the Fierce Swift Bird, turned his head and smiled at the Marquis of Farul and Deputy Commander Dietma, and said eagerly, "I'll go up and have a look first." After speaking, he directly entered the state of apocalypse, the vigorous and soaring spiritual power urged the water element that was silent in his body, his feet stepped on the ground hard, the pebbles under the combat boots stood into powder, the blue-black air flow surrounded the dragon lizard leather armor, the air became smooth and smooth, the whole person jumped 20 meters in the air, stepped on a bulge on the cliff wall, soared up, fluttered, a few ups and downs, and disappeared at the top of the cliff.

When Hercules saw that his master had left him, he was so anxious that he screamed loudly, and his sharp toes buckled the rock of the cliff wall and rushed upwards for more than 30 meters. However, the cliff was steep and slippery, and it was difficult to maintain its balance, so it had to spread its wings and fall to the ground, screaming, and running to the slope to the left.

Dittma opened her mouth wide, looked up at the towering and steep hills, and looked down at the traces of Victor's trampling on the riverbed, muttering, "It's too fast...... It's too messy...... Is this kind of power a legendary surging talent? Victor is not far from the Golden Rank, right?"

The surging talent means that Victor naturally interacts with the Void Water Element, just like the Silver Knight, his Moon Elf bloodline is in an irreversible state of purification, but the Silver Knight will eventually lead to the unpredictable Elemental Sea Barrier, and he will be successfully promoted to the Golden Bloodline Wind Whispering Moon Elf.

The entourage was all dumbfounded, with dazed expressions. The four knights of Kite Castle and Rose Manor could not hide their surprise, after all, they were secret knights cultivated by the big family, and they knew some about the mystery of the blood of the Moon Elves, and they were secretly excited that the Kingdom of Gambis was about to add a highness. Master Edwin straightened his waist and raised his eyebrows. Victor is Sylvia's companion, and even if he can't reach the level of the Sword Saint Ravin, he must be the guardian of the House of York.

It's already Golden!

The Marquis of Farul used his vindictive spirit to control his shock. The Deputy Commander of Dietmar has the extraordinary power of the Golden Rank, but is not a High Rank Knight. Without the talent for elemental perception, he wouldn't have known what had just happened.

For the Golden Knight, all creatures are special manifestations of the orderly combination of the four elements. To measure whether a creature has reached the golden life level, only its soul strength is measured, that is, the strength of the fire element, which represents spiritual power.

As long as anyone enters a state of concentration, they can't hide their true level of fire elementals. During Marquis Farul's visit to the Centaur Hills, he had seen Viscount Randall's unique way of disturbing the fire element. Compared to that time, Victor's current spiritual power has definitely broken through the upper limit of the Silver Knight and steadily entered the realm of the Golden Knight.

Dietma glanced at the Marquis of Farul, shook his head and smiled: "Viscount Randall is usually quiet and elegant, I forgot that he was only 25 years old, I thought he was a stable lord, but I didn't expect that he also has a young and lively side." ”

A deep-minded, unfathomable Highness would buy his own skills?

Marquis Farul was suspicious, his eyes turned slightly, and he took in the surprised and excited expressions of the Knight of Gambis and Master Edwin, and said, "Viscount Randall has hidden the fact that he is a highness from his retinue, and he has no reason to expose his true strength in order to show off...... Could it be that he has something to talk to me about alone, deliberately separating himself from his subordinates?"

Facing the west, this cliff has no sunlight all year round, and the rock walls are shady and damp and covered with slippery moss, so even if a beginner knight climbs with his bare hands, he is at risk of falling. But this is not as difficult as the Silver Knight, and the Golden Knight is not a problem, but he does not reach the top as quickly as Viscount Randall.

Marquis Farul weighed slightly, turned his head to look at the high-level holy warrior, and said with a hearty smile: "I'll go up and take a look at the scenery." ”

Dithma was stunned, and then smiled and said: "Your Highness has such an interest, let's compare and see who will climb to the top of the cliff first." ”

The Pope has a close relationship with the royal family of Neville, but Dietmar, who represents the Cardinals and is responsible for the security of Viscount Randall's trip, cannot accept a Golden Knight and Victor alone in the wilderness, even if they are old friends.

Marquis Farul nodded, untied his Mithril sword and dagger, and tossed it to the secret knight of Rose Manor, Og. At this time, Dietma had climbed the cliff with his hands and feet, and his skills were as agile as a mountain ape, and he was 20 meters away from the ground in an instant. Neville's Sword Mantis Knights clamored and scolded the Templar Lieutenant Commander for being a fool and shameless...... Dietma laughed back, a circle of platinum runes lit up around her body, and the holy power in her body simulated the effect of the wind element to lose weight under the effect of the light spirit magic technique, and the speed of climbing suddenly doubled.

The golden knight finally changed color, and he didn't care about removing the heavy armor, the earthy yellow air flow appeared, and the invisible force field supported his body, and the plate armor combat boots stepped directly into the groove on the solid stone wall, and stepped out five or six meters high, chasing the figure of Dietma.

The knight of the sword mantis cheered loudly for the commander, and the clergy of Cogston Cathedral cheered on Dietmar, and someone took the opportunity to sit in the bank to gamble, and the two sides quickly reached a gambling agreement, and invited the guards of Viscount Randall to bet.

Rose Knight Og looked at the Mithril Sword that Marquis Rull had given him for safekeeping, and looked up to find Knight Conrad not far away with a puzzled expression. The knights of the Kite Castle of the Interior wanted to bring the secret warriors up to listen to the conversation between the three big men, but they were also afraid of angering the future Highness of Gambis.

Seeing this, the three Rose Knights looked at each other and smiled, and pride spontaneously appeared. The future Highness of Gambis, Viscount Randall, is the beloved of Lady Sylvia and the male master of Rose Manor.

Victor climbed to the top of the cliff and saw the so-called core of the earth at a glance. It is a standard spherical shape, with a smooth, immaculate exterior and a pure earthy yellow color, with the upper half exposed and the lower half buried in the rock, identical to the remains of the Alchemy Tower of the Dark Forest.

Victor pounced, his left hand on the surface of the cuboid, feeling the same touch as the ruins of the dark forest, his heart was surging, and he wanted to test the authenticity of the alchemy empire immediately.

He just couldn't contain the excitement in his heart, and he wanted to check whether the details of the core of the earth and the ruins of the alchemy tower matched, but he jumped up without much thought, ignoring the golden knight's ability to perceive the changes in the elements.

If the core of the earth is not an alchemy tower, in case, it will crack according to Victor's will, and the disturbance of the four elements will definitely not be able to hide from the Marquis of Farul below the cliff. What's more, he and Dietma are already coming up.

Victor lifted the apocalypse and continued to operate X-3, reining in his excitement and anxiety, thinking about how to avoid the eyes of outsiders in the future, and unknowingly opened this suspected "alchemy tower" and removed the rune crystals inside. At the beginning of the Dark Forest, it took him a lot of effort to deceive the level 5 adjudicator warriors who accompanied him. Now, protect his entourage, including several clerics and a group of arcane warriors from other families. Victor wants to get rid of them, and he really has to plan well.

Marquis Farul "walked" to the top of the cliff first, and saw Viscount Randall bending over, knocking on the bottom of the core of the earth. He hesitated for two seconds, coughed dryly, alerted Victor to his presence, and then, unhurriedly, walked over and said slowly, "The core of the earth looks like a stone ball on the surface, but in fact, it changes. ”

"Oh, how did it change?" asked Victor as he straightened up, curious.

"It's buried in the mountains, and no one knows what kind of form it takes. When excavated, the upper part is spherical, and the lower half is connected to the mountain, and whenever the surrounding mountain is damaged, it gathers the Void Earth element, repairs the mountain, and makes the surrounding rocks equally indestructible. ”

Farul stomped his foot, and the Mithril Boots stepped on the bottom of the Earth's core, the air roaring and reverberating, but the earthy rock base did not move.

"The core of the earth cannot be destroyed, not even the hill that carries it can be excavated. ”

"Haha, Farul, I admit you're faster than me. ”

The paladin Dietma jumped up, strode over to Victor and Farul, and said with a smile, "But I didn't let Dane cast divine wings on me...... You're only a little bit faster than me. ”

Marquis Farul patted his Mithril breastplate and said lightly: "You wear leather armor, I wear armor, and you set off before me." ”

"This ...... Victor was faster than both of us. Dietmagan laughed, changed the subject, and said, "This is the core of the earth?" The ruling warrior clenched his fist and shook the earthy stone ball, and there was a heavy, long, muffled sound.

"It's useless. Farul shook his head and said, "The core of the earth embodies the solid laws of the Earth Elemental Sea, and no external force can shake it. ”

"Solid indeed. Dietma nodded, withdrew his arm from the stone ball, and said, "According to the documents in the Ivory Sacred Castle collection, there are four earth cores excavated by humans in the glorious past, and this one in Neville is the fifth......"

Victor's heart moved, and he asked, "Where are the other cores of the earth?"

"In the Northern Wilderness...... Now they're all gone. ”

Dietma paused, shook her head, and said, "After all, the core of the earth is not supposed to exist in the real world. It is said that when the core of the earth is exposed to the air, it will gradually lose the legal properties of the earth element, and eventually turn into ordinary stone. The process of change has been long and short, the longest is 72 years, and the shortest is only 5 years before it is weathered and disintegrated. ”

The rune crystal of the Alchemy Tower needs the balance and convergence of the four void elements to ensure its basic form, and if the four elements are unbalanced, the rune crystal may sink into the ground to maintain the extraordinary characteristics of the void element and avoid being assimilated by the laws of the real world. The phenomenon of it gathering the Void Earth Element can be regarded as a self-protection mechanism of the Rune Crystal, but it must consume the power of the Earth Elemental Rune...... The power of the earth elemental rune was exhausted, and the rune crystal was completely finished...... Victor despised the wasted cores of the earth, and was worried that this core of the earth would not be able to support it before he could verify and collect it, and would be assimilated by the laws of the world in advance.

The rune crystal of the Dark Forest took 1 year and 14 months from excavation to collection. According to the report of the alchemy auxiliaries, it has been almost 2 years since this earth core was unearthed. The rocks around the core of the earth were newly hewn out, and the kingdom of Neville had apparently sent people to regularly clear the dirt it had gathered and transformed, so that it could be transformed as soon as possible.

I should have come to Neville sooner!

Victor was secretly anxious, but on the surface he was indifferent, patting the core of the earth and asking, "How long can it exist?"

Marquis Farul shook his head and sighed, "It is precisely because of uncertainty that we have abandoned this hill and chosen to dig a farther and higher southern pass...... I didn't expect that it would anger the gold-level gnolls there...... The nearby lords have been arranging for soldiers to clear the floating soil gathered by the core of the earth, hoping that it will be turned into mortal things as soon as possible. ”

Victor was bleeding in his heart, and couldn't help but say, "It's a pity to let such a magical elemental creation disappear. ”

What's the pity?

Farul thought that Viscount Randall meant something else, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Your Excellency, please come here. ”

The three of them came to the east side of the hill, and the scenery in front of Victor's eyes suddenly opened up. The lush forest is endless, and several rivers flow from north to south, meandering, like a white python hovering in the jungle, and not far from the slope of the mountain converge into a large lake with rippling blue waves, and all kinds of wild animals flock to drink water and play on the lakeside, forming a magnificent picture full of vitality.

"This is the Twilight Forest, and below is Lake Agate. ”

Pointing to the abandoned man-made complex below the hillside, the Marquis of Farul said: "We have mobilized 50,000 young and strong hired men to open this pass, dig the rocks of the hill, build a fortress and an artificial channel underneath, and divert the lake into the valley of the Carchimosen River. ”

"In fact, there are many natural waterways in the mountains of central Neville, and when it rains and snows, the rivers in the central part flow into the lakes of the Cogston Basin, and eventually flow to the kingdom of Dord. It's just that these are seasonal rivers, and when the fire season and the wind season come, the rivers will dry up, and water for people and livestock will become a problem. The lack of a stable water source in the central mountains prevents the establishment of more settlements. ”

"The Kakimosen valley runs east-west, and if we divert water to the east and build a dam to the west, the valley will become a lake. During the dry season, we open the sluice gates to release water, and we don't even need to build canals, so that the natural river can have water all year round. ”

Victor looked at the dilapidated shacks, roads, and half-built fortress foundations below, and said lightly, "What a big deal...... This is probably a town. ”

"When I discussed the Neville project with Master Edwin, I pointed out that he was designing two systems that were incompatible, especially in the Carkimosen Valley, which was very expensive and superfluous! ”

"If you adopt the design scheme of the stream reservoir and the diversion bridge, I estimate that the total cost of the water conservancy project will not exceed 1 million gold soles, and it will only take 10 years to complete the project, and within 3 years it will produce benefits, and within 5 years, the lord's income and expenditure will be balanced. ”

Victor glanced at the Marquis of Farul and said with a smile: "Master Edwin didn't explain, only said that I would understand it if I saw it myself. ”

"I admire Master Edwin as a true silver and white scholar who takes a neutral stance and does not talk about Neville's politics. ”

Marquis Farul nodded, and said calmly: "It is indeed a pity to build Lake Calimosen for the sake of settlement...... If it is for the right to exploit the twilight forest, it is a different matter. ”

The Boulder Mountains to the north, the Mist Mountains to the east, and the Minsk Mountains to the southwest enclose the kingdom of Neville in the middle, making her easy to defend and difficult to attack, but also trapped in a corner, the industrial structure is extremely unbalanced, and the price level is very different from that of other kingdoms. Now, once the kingdom of Neville has opened the pass of the Quachimosen Gorge and the trade route connecting the Earls of Dekaiser to the Rant Empire, it will immediately become accessible in all directions.

The Nevilles had no advantage of carving out the northern wilderness, so they turned to the rich twilight forests on the eastern side of the Mist Mountains. The Fortress of the Carkimosen Valley acts like a Boulder Fortress, keeping the orcs out of the Twilight Forest. With the main force of the Seuss Kingdom to attract the Gnolls, the Neville people can not only easily encroach on the Twilight Forest, but also take the initiative in diplomacy with the Seuss Kingdom. The Knights of Radiance have transferred 10,000 Templars from the northern borders of the Kingdom of Seuss, and the lords of the Kingdom of Seuss are eager for the Nevilles to make a difference in the Forest of Twilight.

The Sassanian Empire opened up from the west to the northern wilderness, and the empire's territory was connected with the exit of the megalithic fortress, and the Neville Kingdom was in the heart of the human kingdom, which could be attacked, retreated, and defended, with developed agriculture and animal husbandry, and thriving trade, and was invincible. The booty obtained by the House of Neovest in the Southern Continent also had to be transported from the trade routes of the county of Decaeser to the kingdom of Neville for sale.

In other words, the kingdom of Neville, the kingdom of Seuss, and the territory of the Rand Empire have reached a consensus, and they are in the dominant position.

"I am amazed by His Majesty Rex's eloquence. ”

Victor didn't see any exclamation on his face, stared at the Marquis of Farul, and said, "I grew up in the Kite Castle since I was a child, and the Emperor Rand killed His Majesty Ryan Auguste, and Neowest formed a blood feud with us Gambis. I just want to know, is there a direct connection between Fort Rock and Nyovester?"

Auguste's blood feud was just a joke in the face of the political interests of the kingdom, but the political position of the lord and allies still had to be emphasized.

Marquis Farul said, "Gambis is a traditional ally of Neville, and I guarantee that Rock Fort and the Neovest family are not directly connected. None of us want the Rand Empire restored. ”

Victor was noncommittal, his gaze turned to the Templar's lieutenant.

The Kingdom of Neville is simply the Pope's own son, and what is inconvenient for them to come forward, the Pope can do for them.

Dietma smiled bitterly, shook her head and said, "I acted on orders, and I don't know what His Majesty the Pope has not explained." He hesitated for a moment, then said solemnly: "One thing is for sure, the Cardinal Council also does not want Neovest to restore the Rand Empire and change the existing political pattern!"

"That's enough. Victor breathed a sigh of relief, smiled and nodded, and offered to reach out to Neville's Golden Knight.

Marquis Farul shook hands with Victor and said with a smile: "Neville's water conservancy project is entrusted to Your Excellency." ”

"I'll do my best!"

Victor withdrew his arm and thought to himself:

"If Neville fights the gnolls in the Twilight Forest, maintain a military echo with the Kingdom of Seuss and relieve the defensive pressure on the northern border of Seuss. What is the purpose of the marriage between the little princess of the royal family of Nassous and the Peter family of the Borui Kingdom?"